Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7289 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

massachusetsmassachusetts

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 365 times in 53 works
Consistency: 98.6% (365 of 370)
Reach if approved: ~389 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: massachusetts
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 370 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (365 changes in 53 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 365)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… God of Heaven? for why should there be wrath against the Colony of the MassachusetsMassachusetts? and see Hag. 1. beg. And why is Family-duties in many houses laid aside …
With rule
… God of Heaven? for why should there be wrath against the Colony of the MassachusetsMassachusetts? and see Hag. 1. beg. And why is Family-duties in many houses laid aside …
Thomas Shepard Jr · Eye-Salve · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hartford forces were ſent to thoſe weſtern towns a week before thoſe of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts could get thither; for otherwiſe one or more of thoſe towns might have been …
With rule
… Hartford forces were ſent to thoſe weſtern towns a week before thoſe of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts could get thither; for otherwiſe one or more of thoſe towns might have been …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… godly, grave, and judicious Divine, Mr. John Cotton, accomodated to the Colonie of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts in New England, and commended to the generall Court there. Which had they then …
With rule
… godly, grave, and judicious Divine, Mr. John Cotton, accomodated to the Colonie of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts in New England, and commended to the generall Court there. Which had they then …
John Cotton · An Abstract of Laws and Government · Open in the reader
Printed
… there? No, they have already made their Incursion, into Pisca…aqua and in the MassachusetsMassachusetts too have they been shedding Blood. Certainly, my Countrymen; 'Tis Time to Look about …
With rule
… there? No, they have already made their Incursion, into Pisca…aqua and in the MassachusetsMassachusetts too have they been shedding Blood. Certainly, my Countrymen; 'Tis Time to Look about …
Cotton Mather · Soldiers Counseled and Comforted · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
TO THE Inhabitants Of the Province of the MassachusetsMassachusetts-Bay, In NEW-ENGLAND.
With rule
TO THE Inhabitants Of the Province of the MassachusetsMassachusetts-Bay, In NEW-ENGLAND.
Increase Mather · The Great Blessing of Primitive Counselors · Open in the reader
Printed
To the Honourable Simon Broadſtreet Eſq Late GOVERNOUR of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts-Colony.
With rule
To the Honourable Simon Broadſtreet Eſq Late GOVERNOUR of the MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts-Colony.
Joshua Scottow · The Planting of the Massachusetts Colony · Open in the reader
Printed
… he stir'd up the People (most seditiously and desperately threatning to begin with the MassachusetsMassachusetts) and to cry out no Lords, no Masters, as is yet to be seen …
With rule
… he stir'd up the People (most seditiously and desperately threatning to begin with the MassachusetsMassachusetts) and to cry out no Lords, no Masters, as is yet to be seen …
Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obſerved and remembred all along, that all the Churches in New England, eſpecially within MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts bay, at New Plimmouth, Quillipiacke, and about the river of Connectecute are of one …
With rule
… obſerved and remembred all along, that all the Churches in New England, eſpecially within MaſſachuſetsMassachusetts bay, at New Plimmouth, Quillipiacke, and about the river of Connectecute are of one …
William Rathband · Narration of Some Church Courses · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Eye-Salve N00127

Printed
… our Lord Iesus Christ unto his Church Especially those within the Colony of the MASSACHUSETSMASSACHUSETTS In NEW-ENGLAND, To take heed of Apostacy: OR.
With rule
… our Lord Iesus Christ unto his Church Especially those within the Colony of the MASSACHUSETSMASSACHUSETTS In NEW-ENGLAND, To take heed of Apostacy: OR.
Thomas Shepard Jr · Eye-Salve · Open in the reader

Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England N00171

Printed
… to the Service; the motion fetching a large compass from Connecticut down to the massachusetsmassachusetts; from whom in the last place they were solicited thereunto. And for the other …
With rule
… to the Service; the motion fetching a large compass from Connecticut down to the massachusetsmassachusetts; from whom in the last place they were solicited thereunto. And for the other …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 122 · Open in the reader